#final fronteir

In honour of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the Hubble Space Telescope has released an image boldly going where no one has gone before.

Peering through a cluster of galaxies to the very edge of the observable Universe to see the First Galaxies themselves.

The Frontier Field (in honour of Star Trek’s mission to explore the Final Frontier) is a region of the sky no bigger than a dollar coin seen from 100m away. Yet in that region 4 billion light years distant Hubble sees hundreds of galaxies that form Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in our Universe.

Kirk: I lost a brother once.

Audience: Omg, he's talking about Sam!

Kirk: I was lucky. I got him back.  *Is actually talking about Spock*